These are some of the sayings that we don’t trust. Every one of us has some health ailment or the other. Some have severe headaches, others develop breathing problems, yet others get serious problems such as heart or lung ailment. But have you ever taken an apple or a carrot a day as you have learned in your primary school???
We do not trust nature. Most of us do not drink rainwater. Rain water maybe slightly contaminated by dust and other chemicals on the first day and from the roof that maybe coated with chemicals, but one can harvest it directly from the skies. Keep a clean tub right in the open of the terrace. This can be done the second day heavy rain. The first day, the water from the skies can wash away dust and other particles in the atmosphere. Then it can be double-filtered and stored in huge drums. This water can be filtered again for drinking.
One must experience the taste of rain water. It is Heavenly. An Australian study has confirmed that rainwater is very much safe for drinking and other household purposes and does not cause any illness. Most people have installed rain water harvesting system for bathing and washing and rarely for drinking.
Children love the rain. They love snapping those bubbles and having bathed. But today you find a lot of elders shooting them away from having fun in the rain all because they think they will catch a cold. Don’t you get cold even when you don’t bath in rain??? Your hair shines so well after a bath in rain/rainwater.
Working late or watching movies most of us have lost the habit of waking up early and doing some form of exercises. School back in the 1960s had Morning Prayer and some exercises in the open sunlight for about ½ hour. Although yogasanas and breathing techniques have gained more importance (more in west), we turn to them for style or when we have some ailment that refuses to budge with our popping pills.
Ancient text kept at Saraswathi Mahal library inThanjuvar, Tamil Nadu, about breathing exercises has this to say. Practicing a certain type of deep breathing while studying (alternate right and left nostril breathing) can improve memory and help retain whatever you are studying.This text says that breathing should be practiced at empty stomach pretty early in the morning.( studying early in the morning some time before sunrise.) The text says that this way, you cannot forget whatever you have read This is because the oxygen that enters your body clears congestion in the brain and enables it to retain whatever you have read with concentration in memory.
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